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l ■XfV I i *, I Ai I I I I .X‘ *,' .*• ■ , fe.V:^y^J i w - “* 1 t-.. i. ■m€0W; GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, C.S. A. >4,r> i I most promising » «*ord for the t enterprise* in nplate*,-prove t and not — bunt and i ) j ^0 I of more than twice that ‘ “* " a “ <»■“"* in the iTrirfybu^d od mills in , four large »au- i on the greatest system in ----al, has secured connec- .... | A its important rival, the East Ten- Virginia and 8es*gi*. It has obtain- ed direct Independent connection with Chat- tanooga and the West, and wiB break ground inabrtt'day* tor a ionrth road, connecting with a fonrth independent system. With its Bve white and fourcolored church- •a, it has recently completed a 110,000 new Presbyterian church. It has increased its p nlatloa by nearly one fifth. ,tt has sttrae around its borders fruit growers irom nea every State in the Union, until it is now sur¬ rounded on nearly every side by orchards and vineyards. It has put up the largest fruit evaporators in the State. It is the home city has lolly in- 1, with a decade and simply shows the progress of an already admirable city, with the natural advantages of having the finest climate, summer and winter, in the world. Griffin is the connty seat of Spalding conn- above sea level. By the census of 1890, it will have at alow estimate between 6 000 and 7,000 people, and they are all of the right sort—wide-awake, up to the times, ready to welcome strangers and anxious to secure de¬ sirable settlers, who will not be any lees wel¬ come if they bring money to help build up the town. There is abont oply one thing we need fiipy {ustaa*, and that is a big hotel. W» have several small ones, but their accom¬ modations are entirely too limited for our busisees, pleasure and health seeking guests. It you see anybody that want* a good loea- juet mention Spain sending for sample copies, and descriptive pamphlet of Griffin.) This brief sketch is written April 12th, 1889, and will have to be changed in a few months to embrace new enterprises- commenced and eons pie ted. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY. HENRY C. PEEPLES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAtivifos, oeoboIa. Practices in all the State and Federal Courts. oct9d*wly -*3 .-i l,’ - - ■ ■ Wr;» -cM- ---- JOHN. J. HUNT, at law, OBirriX, GEORGIA. Office, 81 Hill Street, Up Stairs, over J. H White’s Clothing Store. mar22d4wly THOS. R. MILLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, rikissl I fTEfARf hTKWAM. . H5 ^oter.tiPdxmt. ; * DANIEL ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Over George 4 Hartnett’s, Griffin, Ga. Will practice in the State and ,nd Federal Fed era 0 MllltS . julyl9dti D. L PARMER, ..ATTORNEY AT LAW, wooBBrnr, Georgia. HOTEL CURTIS GRIFFIN, GSOBOIA. Under New Management. Aube , meet all trains'. r+rtfr. * FofR ent! JOSEY HOUSE, and Kitchen, rich SHELTON HOUSE, CURIOSITIES FROM THE MAILS. Reptile#, lu„.et. sad of the H.msn entering the received ■rtSrtrexard&'.& auction. The room is lined with cases, m which the curiosities are Very artis- tieaJiy Here arranged. fireman’s was a ax. and a send firearms through the mails. marked, “Oh, here is a human earl” one re¬ total. wondering at the singular We “Yes, do that know came in a newspaper. sent. Here not is by and whom, that it is was an asp a tarantula—both quite startling creat¬ ures to find upon opening a v box. They both came through alive,” said the at¬ tendant, know. “and We that always is against the law, you have live curi¬ osities chloroformed and preserved in packages, liquor. Wo for are careful in mining we never know what sort of pets we are going to find. “’Here are some horned toads. I have had tree toads for pets for months “Yes, indeed.” hear amusing “Yes, to in¬ deed, and , emphasis on “yes,” "the “indeed sliding along as the though the expression ofiife. were one of “Yes, measures “There indeed,” die answered. were sixteen of them, sent from Texas en route for Heidelburg, for scientific purposes. They were in perforated tin cans, were detected and sent here. A boy brought the cans in a bag, but one snake got away. A lady after felt at tho something chiefs desk, her. feet. three days at Look¬ ing had down, there was the snake He been in one of the drawers of the chief’s desk for those Well, three days. Was she things frightened? that ladies there dislike are few we more tSEtSliX. know.” in such things— ack and straight, you tened see, in prepared the belt” with care to o be be fas- “Here are some balls of opium. You notice they were disguised in a cover¬ ing of candy. And here is a beantiful large etching, pity it should exquisitely not have done. reached It seems a ite destination, hut we could not gSie stepped to the desk and took from one of the drawers a book, open- it for our inspection. In it were placed the addressed sides of envelopes. Some of those addresses indicated a close acquaintance “Ti Ti with phonographic spelled spelling, ‘Tight I. as Ga.,” and Ga, “Bpringerville, was Arizona,” ’’—Detroit was spelled Free “Spengel Bill, Arizona. Press. The Oscillation of High Structure*. The oscillation of high structures in storm winds is a much observed fact, Chimneys partake of this motion in a degree proportion¬ ate to the stability of their design, and in the proportion of diameter to height. Observations of the movement of a chimney near Marseilles, Franco,'. 113 feet in height and only 4 feet outside diameter at the top, showed a maximum oscillation of 20 inches durlnga severe gale. 104 feet Another high, chimney of good near Vienna, Austria, pro¬ portions, having a 6# feet flue, was found to oscillate 6M inches c the severest storms, The Eiffel tower will i doubt be affected to a marked degree by winds. Although its form arm of of structure structure ti ti of the least area to the force of the wind, its form and elastic material favor large oscillation in storm winds. Oklahoma Sketches. FABTY ARMVJXO OR TOOT. enough Oklahoma for has bftbe now boomers bare opened to get tired long many of older and me beginning their return to communities has already begun. Of course a very largo proportion of those who flocked to the promised land will “stick,” and, no doubt, after the disputes, sometimes bloody, SaSaStiSStSfS: 4 ** reason for it, ti The American AgricuL ter tor the tree to remove a certain tamchttariotaft Hh U.UMMJIWbkkM CAN MSN LEARN TO FLY? Problem Agitating the Aeademr «» a* «!uc« A Company to Boom Invention, a Mng'acSi^r u « . 1 t*>QDfOQRttt SUCCC6(ldl su .° c ®« 1 ? d in seemed huge machine l considerable to success. 1 like a genera* tion the SW* a^finall^hak ing its ar^t wings the satisfaction beat the air of See¬ over able Coney distance Island and before carry it a consider¬ thought R was necessary. learned professors insist im Enable of the has propel by the himself help of maehn through to there is no reason why he conquer the air in the same manner. But many more of the professors shake their heads in solemn negation when this argument is advanced. Still the Scotch inventor’s success im created an impression. His fly- ___— bird by 0 the ~ ...— aid of -„__tly propeller like those worked ti a carried by electricity, just and eagle the carries passenger its is It is peculiar as an affair, but has prey. a Been more successful than anything of its kind, the and hence the arguments Most among the*e scientific believe professors. of professors able that man will be that mechanism to fly by. mechanism is made after only that when of tho bird. One of these learned men, discussing this the opinion. matter the He other said day, thaij expressed from the earliest time the dominant wish of man. had been to fly after the manner and method of the bird. Most models of the air ships that have been bird of attempted flight, have particularly been after of the the and sea flight, bird, owing whose ability for of continual lighten¬ to the power ing its body, is well known. said “Should the learned man ever fly “he successfully will have to ” ......S’ man, *** the sea bird." • The authorities tell us that the fly¬ ing machine told is also of that prehistorieal 400 origin. We are some years B. 0,a wooden pigeon was made to fly exploit with considerable accomplished success. As than this was more ‘2.-300 years before the trial of our Scotch inventor’s machine we have not much to boast of. Just what will come of the discus¬ sion mains at to the bo Academy Nothing of Science at all re¬ of it in seen. the end good may come except a deai of theorizin — ■ • through the air, is going right capitalized company, he thinks ho see# success ahead.—New York Mail and Express. ■ The Midnight Son, Imagine yourself on a ship at anchor looking west or straight in front of you. There is a broad expanse of sea a little to your right hand, behind you will be the rugged coast, and to your left the long, narrow mainland fiord between the islands and the that the steamer has just traversed. You Watch the islands sun and as it tho slowly, coasts slowly look like sets; rteh the a dark purple, and the shadows cast by the ship’s mast, etc.; grow longer ana longer. After a bit, when the sun has sunk apparently twelve feet from the horizon, it stops and seems to remain stationary for about twenty minutes; then the very sea gulls hide away, while the air all of a sudden strikes chilly. Each one the has tourist an awed, ex¬ pectant feeling; steamer broods a silence that may be felt. Soon the sun rises very sfov which was just now rose color, be- mmr^ ' cuught by the Min’s bright rays, and tl» fta once more.—“Jubilee Jaunt to Nor¬ way.” A Great Tree Library. The reading room of the Union i library library is is open open until until lO 10 o’i o’clock every evening. I dropped in there about authority. readers. rity •eaders. 9 tho h<> The" ^ I I consulted consulted bf/^mT^te the the work work I with waited until 10 . wanted and then o’clock to see bow the asseml would break broken up. by Suddenly the sound the ness was bell. Intently book# were readers taking an [for i Tho gaud give out order system such was r was as an envy.—New York Star. mm “1 satord tb* meat and •hlpi a young ware 9E9U £ srasi? mnuuuAu wafer six Hts first i bIks r ■ Make* Slxr tar met ,ts in his that an ex- Shortly perience after of mine the hi is “ 1 ‘ relating, ere came into my place a 10 exp; Id nee is need- I sold I very was flu: with same He threw yom dace boiling tixo counter, rage. demand* return on of Sag* It that after mting t to an expose hour the seems prese: had^ taken With ....______JHRMBfbeHk: in of the was aeommotion one corner room, and the rivals of our customer’s best the wmm friction of the necklace. She ^ b &T^r.Kh?dlru o ?£! I tested the necklace in his presence, and proved to him that it was full 14 carats. called About that purchase time a young scarf phy¬ sician to a pm. He had overheard part of the story and asked to outright Kapr and trouble _— ------ , y —, is with your girl and not the has on affinity "for gold the expla¬ nation is clear. I have patients for whom mercurial medicines have been aiscoior at once, my customer cooie off and carried his purchase away. In connection with this subject sister an 18 carat ring as a present. d If the “ asked him ring feat was gold. He replied that it was. evening the young lady had occasion to remove the ie ring from her finger, and she noticed____ iced that the skin was greatly dis- colored. “Jim im has carried his jokes too the window far,” Bho threw i threw exclaimed, l., , the trinket and opening into the street; some gamin picked it up. When my f riend id learned lean of it he came to me for experience. consolation, His and sister I explained my for her own haste. is sorry “All is not gold that glitters,” nor ireverything brass 14 that carat discolors. ring A person wearing a on one finger and a 10 carat on another may have noticed that the finger with the higher carat will be discolored and the other pne not. The reason is that the ring of tho lower carat fits snugly, thus and tho other is rather loose, causing a friction. —Jeweler’s Weekly. Where Men Lore Their Jferre. Bid you ever notice the conduct of a man who is forced by circumstances to enter a fashionable miUinery store unaccompanied by will a female body- guard i^ If not, it be found enter- His fellow men will pity him. him, It but J# e women will laugh at fair sex. Saida known Fifth ave- nue milliner the day: “It may redible, have but led in I have seen t „ho battle, who mount jhe ros¬ trum, who pass in constant friction with th or who en- joy a reputation society- a? ites this among place women m alone toexecuto ns for their wives, and fall suddenly into the con- dition boys of great, t, bashful, called overgrown face school when cn upon to the “Why girls and ia it? ‘spcaic ThaVf t problem. But there thtogin voted exclusively the to . the labor and sonal adornment of which per¬ women Dainfuilv disconcerts a man unless he wren then he is by no means at instance of this, a national know 1 edged politics nerve came to order a bonnet for seflt home on aj ras of ladies really became so he didn’t the bon: and’Aien ‘ for the door made ......“T sol had ’t wonder & drink 3 KF* a queer thing, isn't hf-New gj|i 1 dcnco. d called ““ “Jen d’_....... » gin roD ®-, idra and dross orXT layobat board sition of the pieces an young manly virtues, man's pieces and man ponuou or the studied with players, regarded and was as tion was set u presence, and he asked root After _ tho position on — __ m his quiet but always ffig^fled tn^ n and win the v* vur™ sat gentleman directly opposite with her. the After stove. riding A was a block sho told her escort that the heat of the ear was unbearable and at her suggestion they moved nearer to SdSH lator. Ho did politely. Soon the lady rapped so, the door with her on um- “Please turn the damper In the stove I” said she. ductor, “Certainly, and tho madam,” damper raid turned. the con¬ was In a few minutes tho lady began fanning herself vigorously that with a hymn ductors book, didn’t and beem remarked to have “Con¬ judg¬ ment about heating cars.” any At this juncture tho conductor re¬ entered tho car for another fare and the “Conductor, lady said with I wish asperity: would leave that door The you heat from that open. today,” thermometer said instantly zsslxtj fell twenty : degrees,—Brooklyn Eagle. -if. ■ lending a Shock. Englishman Among certain is supposed, eastern from nations the with which tho.suc- cess he usoscei-tain simple remedies, to bo “medicine endowed man.” with magic powers, as a It is 1y tho people classed as uncivil- owever, who regard ir -----; art, which can do an A woman recently visited of a physician who has become cele¬ brated for his successful use of elec¬ quired: tricity in various diseases and in¬ “If anybody had headaches iu the back of their neck, and was so nervous they could fly, do you think your bat¬ teries would help ’em?” “I might recommend electricity,” said the doctor; “but I must know more about your symptoms. ” “Bless you, they aren’t my sjrmp- “Then como another day with the P ‘-f^3-“ “Becauso she lives oslw out -" west I know yon thought can maybe telegraph could that set far, and bat¬ I teries to work you her J’— Youth’s your Com¬ on panion. Old Wine# la SSnunuth. Some of the oldest families here have Madeira nearly a century old. One gentleman has several lots of the famous All Saints’ Madeira, imported in 1791 and 1793, the year of the great flro irvSavannah. Two pipes imported that year, one tor the great-grandfar ther of the late William Gibbous and uarounu planter. under other was the burned bluff by upon 5 S w# y . S £ pipe under the bluff was divided be¬ tween Gibbons and Heyward as the only fair way of settling their loss. The lots of gentleman the wine bons’ and eighty years ■■ there is the famous Hunter wine, im¬ ported is still about in the the hands same of time. friends Some of the of it family. The late Mr, Do Renne, who inherited some of this wii offered $100a 1 man lias over from the old Madeira ] Gordon from 1802 to ; was a large Sav wine f tury ago.— John spoken of of as as John Philadelphia, voted the btrtl to a se - r? ~ % Viv-r premo in s jm co STS official about tee i rniddfo to til© beautiful fusic mam that Sris .. been all more 01 ^^^ BufteSh tf volume < some of the* of her caily she - her got V u - that ren s to fear i life was the 1 man: she cow tiKheST*-* J and a certain fcmii . ograpny. She &E3f%!L attended the funeral M i ousfy atdy ill afterwards and was to' hours after her apparently supposed i death! Collins showed signs of animat Two hours later she v&nssrata^ conversing with her during her straight Saviofir, to shes magnificence too wonderful of hiL_ to bp words. “AH that I ha Mrs. Collins, “I can never i glorics’hro tforc.' wi Collins spcakable is of of up and' and' of 38 years years ■Mitold age age < more than ordinary intelligence. Sho earnestly, her isily, remarkable and and honestly story lamented calmly Kff'fKsS Jta. was (Pa.) trans|iorted Cor. Pittsburg to ===•. profiL Duuuing He on xi ito know n« STSTeSb 1 mats ones as ISgffi ratter to male is greater and more rapid improvement , - tiding from to an average j butter per eow.- „ f ----~ i A new ( Mta ‘ _ ■ S s 1